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Tokugawa maps, facts, and figures

Ted Bestor, Harvard University

Foreign Cultures 84 -- Tokyo

Shōguns of the Tokugawa Dynasty 1603-1868

A genealogy of the Tokugawa clan (from www.samurai-archive.com)

Pre-modern provinces of Japan (from www.samurai-archives.com)

Map shows the customary provinces that made up Japan at roughly the beginning of the 16^th century

Japan in the 16^th century (from www.samurai.archives.com)

Map shows major castle-towns and trade centers

Major daimyo and their holdings, ca. 1572 (from www.samurai.archives.com)

Map shows major players toward the end of the Sengoku (“Warring States”) period, as the final generation of consolidation and unification is set to begin. (Note that Tokugawa appears on this map as a relatively minor domain)

Major daimyo and their holdings,1583 (from www.samurai.archives.com)

What a difference a decade makes! Oda Nobunaga died in 1582 and his holdings went to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Takeda’s domains have been absorbed by Tokugawa.

Unification of Japan in the late 16^th century (from www.samurai.archives.com)

Note the small map in the lower righthand corner which shows the growth and eventual transfer of Tokugawa lands starting out around the present-day Nagoya and ending up around the present-day Tokyo

The Sekigahara campaign, 1600 (from www.samurai-archives.com)

Map shows the alliances of warlords for and against the Tokugawa clan in the decisive battle that solidified Tokugawa Ieyasu’s control of the country